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Red Cabbage Slaw with a Twist

"Having discovered the wonderful qualities of fresh ginger, I tried to create a colorful winter salad with a surprising mix of flavor."

By allrecipes · From Open Recipes · 12 ingredients
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Red Cabbage Slaw with a Twist

Why it works: Shallot and wasabi share more aroma than cooks usually use. They rank in the top 1% of all ingredient pairs, and cooks put them together in 7 recipes. Both carry coumarin, which smells sweet, hay. The science ↓

Red Cabbage Slaw with a Twist

6 servings
Prep20 min

Ingredients

Directions

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Nutrition, whole recipe (rough)

724Calories
23 gProtein
56 gFat
43 gCarbs

Counts 11 of 12 ingredients. The other 1 aren't in our nutrition table and add nothing above, so the real totals are higher.

What these numbers assume: 11 portions
IngredientPortion assumedkcal
Pine1 oz (28g)191
Sunflower1 oz (28g) hulled165
Olive Oil1 tbsp (14g)119
Egg1 large egg (50g)78
Broccoli1 cup chopped (156g)55
Onion1 medium (110g)44
Red Bell Pepper1 medium (119g)31
Walnut1 walnut half (4g)26
Lemonjuice of 1 lemon (48ml)12
Ginger1 tsp grated fresh (2g)2
Basil5 leaves fresh (2.5g)1
Wasabinot in our table0

One typical portion per ingredient; the recipe's quantities are not counted. A rough guide only, not for medical or dietary planning.

By allrecipes. Recipe from Open Recipes.

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The flavor team

The pairs that carry this dish. Each one is judged two ways: how much their aromas overlap, and how often cooks already put them together.

  1. Shallot + wasabitop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together7 recipes

    Shared aroma: coumarin (sweet, hay).

  2. Basil + lemontop 1% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together1,823 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  3. Pepper + lemontop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together27,047 recipes

    Shared aroma: trans-2-nonenal (cardboard, fatty).

  4. Basil + olivetop 3% of all pairs
    Smell alikemoderate
    Cooked together5,063 recipes

    Shared aroma: 3-hexenal (apple, fruity).

  5. Pepper + basiltop 4% of all pairs
    Smell alikestrong
    Cooked together5,294 recipes

    Shared aroma: methyl cinnamate (strawberry).

Ranks compare each pair with 20,000 random ingredient pairs on CompKitchen. How we score pairs

Swap the wasabi

How well each one fits the dish's main ingredients (cabbage, pepper, shallot, ginger, basil, lemon, olive):

  1. Broccolifits better
  2. Spinachfits better
  3. Capsicumfits better
  4. Wasabithe original

Fit is the average pairing score against cabbage, pepper, shallot, ginger, basil, lemon, olive. Candidates are from the same food group and used in at least 100 recipes.